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Purpose
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Formative Assessment of Teaching (FAsT)
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To assist
individual instructors in their efforts to continuously improve and
refine their teaching skills. |
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FAsT is a survey tool designed to be
used by individual instructors during the semester to create
customized, anonymous surveys to gather information from their
students. Questions and responses are only visible to the instructor
creating a survey for their own course and student responses are
anonymous. |
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Please note:
All
surveys must be completed by two days before the
Student Evaluation of Teaching begins.
We do not wish to create a conflict with the official Student
Evaluation of Teaching System that takes place at the end of each
semester.
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Creating a Survey
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Select
a course from your list and click Create Survey. |
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Choose
the end-date for the survey window. |
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Create
Likert- and comment-type questions (up to 5 of each). |
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Click
"Save Draft." |
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Edit
email introduction if you wish. |
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Click
"Send" to email the U of I students registered for your class. |
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(Click here for hints on designing
a survey) |
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Likert
questions are on a scale of 0 to 4. The email sent to students can
be edited by the instructor and
surveys
may be edited until the first student responds to the survey.
A window of about 1 week is recommended for each survey. Surveys may
be copied and edited, then used again for the same or another
course. |
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Responses |
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The FAsT homepage will show you how many students have responded to
your survey and a response rate. Once there is at least one
response, a "View Report" link
will show next to the Response Rate. |
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This system draws its data from Banner.
Thus, students listed in Banner as currently enrolled both at the
University of Idaho and in each class will be sent your survey via
email. The email address used will be the official University of
Idaho email assigned to the student. You may want any other
students to fill out a hardcopy. |
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Use for instructional
improvement does not need IRB approval. If there is potential use
for research and publication, IRB approval is required. |
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Begin Creating your FAsT Survey
Here
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FAQs
Here
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